How this Geezer did it in the beginning

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Wow, I have met some stupid people in my life but that one is hard to top. Love the picture of you and your granddaughter! It takes a manly man to do all the silly things that babies love to do :)
 
I am baby sitting today. My Daughter is having a big party in how house and she is again pregnant and sick so we are babysitting. My wife had to go to a shower so "I" am babysitting. As soon as my wife left, she pooped all over the place so I cnanged her and gave her a bath. As soon as I finished that, she pooped again, so I changed her and gave her another bath. We just took our fifth walk around the block after we went to the park, twice. On this last walk she fell asleep in her stroller, so I picked up the stroller with her in it and she is sleeping in the stroller in the living room. I didn't want to rish waking her up to take her out of the stroller, and I also didn't want to get to close to her, in case she pooped again. I hope my wife gets home soon, I am to old for this and have not changed a diaper in 35 years and I realize, I don't miss it. So yes I am a Manly man, with a little girly Grand daughter, but it takes a Manly Man to take care of a Girly girl.:dance:

 
Great stories Paul. A true man after my own heart....I was raised under the phylosophy that anything in live worth having is worth fighting for. And that I am owed nothing and must earn everything. This keeps me humble and appreciative of life. Funny you state "fantastic" as I say that everyday when someone inquires how I am doing. It feels good to see a smile on someone's face who was expecting some other response. My favorite quote from Abraham Lincoln states " it's not the years of your life that matter...it's the life in your years"
 
" it's not the years of your life that matter...it's the life in your years"
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Reeftanknewbie ( what will you be called after you have been at this for fifty years?)
I remember that quote from Lincoln. I go to a gum three times a week and I go as soon as it opens in the morning and there are all older people there, mostly Ladies and all the conversations are about sickness, pain, illness and death. This week one lady was talking about her broken ankle and that was the topic for the morning. I mean I know as we age, everything aches, it aches on all of us. They look at me in awe when I say I feel great or fantastic. I don't, but who wants to hear all that? Especially when there is so much of those pain stories flying around. Try to be a little up beat and maybe you will feel better. I know pain, I had 3 shoulder and 3 knee operations and a bunch of broken bones as many of us had and as we age. If we lived an active life, we break things, it happens and years later those broken things hurt. It's life.
I was Babysitting for the last couple of days so everything aches, my body is not used to crawling all over the house or carrying a little 22lb Munchkin all day so I took some aspirins and get on with my life. But it is life and I won't complain as so many people have it so much worse. Look at those poor young people coming home from the war missing limbs or worse. They have problems, not us. :beer:

 
Tangaroa, I am free this afternoon and I am parched. I will supply the boat, and you can bring the beer.
Sparta Reef, you are here also. Of course you can come too as you are also a few thousand miles closer and will probably get here first. :wave:

 
I am having worm problems. Specifically white worms, I have a million of them and as the dirt ages in their container it becomes mostly worm poop and I change it. But when I change half the dirt, I have to throw out half the worms because it is hard to separate the worms from the scurvy dirt and it gets scurvier as it ages. I am doing 4 experiments now in my workshop. In one of them I am using AC current to shock the worms out of the dirt. It is working, but not as good as I would like and I am trying to find a good object that the worms will crawl up on to get away from the electricity. The second experiment is almost the same except I am using DC current. Then I have a net full of worms and dirt suspended in water with a strong light over it, worms hate light and I am hoping the worms will crawl out of the dirt and into the container. The last one, I have a container of dirt/worms and water and on top of that, I have a net and am hoping the worms will try to get out of the water and crawl on to the net.
So in an hour I should see if any of those experiments work. If not, I will try 4 more things.

 
It appears you have a King Crab trying exit your work bench drawer.

Seriously though I hope you continue the worm experiment. Was following on other site, but mods locked it.

:^)
 
I know the mods locked it and I asked them why but they are ignoring me. It is OK as I am also ignoring them.

I can build a Space Shutle (a small one) in my workshop as I have been accumulating "stuff" for many years and that is my small workshop. The larger one with the big tools, welders and auto tools is in the garage.
(I used to be a GM Mechanic)
 
I think I have the worm extraction thing figured out but it needs a little tweeking. The electric thing does not work. It definitely annoys the worms to where they scratch curses at me on the inside of their enclosure but I still can't get them out of the dirt like that. But the experiment where I put a clod of worm infused dirt in a container and cover it with water works. I cover the dirt with about 1/2" of water and lay a net over it so that some of the net is above the water. Eventually many of the worms, I am assuming the smarter ones, climb up the net to get out of the water. Now I am left with a worm infested net. I take the net and put it in my tank and the fish eat the worms from the net. It needs tweeking because many of the fish are afraid of the net, rightly so, so I will build something with net material that does not look exactly like a net. Maybe I will make it resemble a 1955 Oldsmobile or a shoe so they don't see it as a net. Or maybe I will just use a piece of net material.
So right now, the fish that are not afraid of the net (the stupid ones) are in the net eating the worms while fish like the copperband are hiding from the bad net.
I see a new mandarin feeding station coming soon.:thumbsup:
 
Paul B said:
Reeftanknewbie ( what will you be called after you have been at this for fifty years?)
I remember that quote from Lincoln. I go to a gum three times a week and I go as soon as it opens in the morning and there are all older people there, mostly Ladies and all the conversations are about sickness, pain, illness and death. This week one lady was talking about her broken ankle and that was the topic for the morning. I mean I know as we age, everything aches, it aches on all of us. They look at me in awe when I say I feel great or fantastic. I don't, but who wants to hear all that? Especially when there is so much of those pain stories flying around. Try to be a little up beat and maybe you will feel better. I know pain, I had 3 shoulder and 3 knee operations and a bunch of broken bones as many of us had and as we age. If we lived an active life, we break things, it happens and years later those broken things hurt. It's life.
I was Babysitting for the last couple of days so everything aches, my body is not used to crawling all over the house or carrying a little 22lb Munchkin all day so I took some aspirins and get on with my life. But it is life and I won't complain as so many people have it so much worse. Look at those poor young people coming home from the war missing limbs or worse. They have problems, not us. :beer:

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Paul,
Well said. Just the other day I was at the VA in my area and saw several younger vets with all sorts of severe injuries. My heart goes out to them as I envision there future.
 
Paul B said:
Tangaroa, I am free this afternoon and I am parched. I will supply the boat, and you can bring the beer.
Sparta Reef, you are here also. Of course you can come too as you are also a few thousand miles closer and will probably get here first. :wave:

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I am closest just give me a date and time and I got the beer on ice as week speak....
 
Reeftanknewbie I think that ice may melt if you are coming from PA.
Actually I have a boatload of people coming on the boat in about an hour from Vermont. People will drive hundreds of miles to come boating. But it may be because this amphipod will be One Year old tomorrow.
Of course if you can make it here any Monday, tues or Wednesday, we can go out collecting. (or for clams on the half shell, my favorite snack) It has to be low tide or you will have to swim down 8' to get an amphipod.
 
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